Plan for a Report on the Revolution of 1905
План доклада о революции 1905 года
Date: 1905-12
Source: PSS vol 54
Translated by: AI (Claude)

(Struve on January 7: There is no revolutionary people. 59. Trotsky.)
Gapon -- a revolutionary priest.

Petition to the tsar-father. Revolution.

Direct action of the masses against the head of the state power.

Revolutionaries: a small group (several hundred persons) -- leaders of the proletariat and thanks to this leaders of the revolution.

Trotsky 1 2 3 at the end

4) Strikes (the first revolution in world history that can best and most precisely be understood and studied from the [history of] strike statistics).

5) 45... (1895-1904) 80 (1903)
2800 (1905) -- 400 (January 1905)
(in one month as many as in 10 years before the revolution).

6) Waves of strikes. Vanguard and rearguard
Metalworkers and those lagging behind
North and north-west = vanguard...

7) Economic and political strikes.

8) Spring 1905 -- beginning of the peasant movement... (content of the bourgeois revolution).

9) June 28 (15), 1905 -- revolt on the Potemkin...

10) Three waves: the strike wave -- the first, leading, independently organised. The peasant movement -- almost incomparably (considerably weaker)
(unfortunately, only 1/15; 2,000 burnt out of 30,000).

11) Boycott of the August Duma... parliamentarism... Military revolts (cf. 1825 versus 1905).

12) The culminating point: October and December 1905: Meetings in the university... 74.

Trotsky. Kharkov 23. X. 1905

October: the first mass political and revolutionary strike throughout the country.
(+ 69. Trotsky. Railwaymen, postal workers.)
Manifesto of October 30 (17), 1905.

XII: The Moscow uprising... 214 Trotsky: Gorky.
9 days: 221 Trotsky
(Max Weber on the role of "Lenin's group")...
219: Trotsky. Cannon on October 25, 1905 in Moscow.
222: Moscow 1905. Berlin 1848.
("Eight-hour working day and arms." 164 Trotsky.)

Maximum of political strikers... 8-hour working day. Defection of the bourgeoisie. Lockouts.

Maximum of the peasant movement...

Maximum of military revolts...
185-6 (Trotsky): workers and peasants in the military revolt.

Soviets of Workers' Deputies...

13) Victory of the counter-revolution (December 1905)...

Loan of 2,000 million francs: spring 1906! (NB)

14) Attempts to renew the offensive.

First Duma (spring 1906)... (Peasant party + Social-Democrats). Wave of strikes and the last wave of the peasant movement.

Second Duma (spring 1907)... No peasant movement, a weak wave of strikes.

15) Coup d'etat of June 3 (16), 1907. Beginning of the counter-revolutionary era until 1912.

16) Significance: (.) Russia is renewing itself (Leo Tolstoy laments)*

* See "On the Election Campaign and the Election Platform," Collected Works, 5th ed., vol. 20, p. 362.